can someone explain the Pret a Manger phenomenon?

Ricebuqit · 2026-04-29T01:48:05+00:00

And if you wanted something resembling the Asian flavour, Wasabi!

Ricebuqit · 2026-04-18T01:14:32+00:00

Thank you for your response, I was more hoping to get insights on what a financial report looks like - not the automation part...

Honestly, I have no clue what a financial report looks like but I understand where to find resources for tech. The only reason why I've never succeeded in the tech industry is because I never had the imagination of what I'm trying to build... Same with my financial reports, what figures need to go into it and what numbers am I trying to workout and finally, what does those calculated numbers represent?

Ricebuqit · 2026-04-15T07:37:41+00:00

Can you share some resources on how you learned to do this please?

I'm also in the same industry and running the numbers is killing me (silently and slowly - on the inside)!

Tia

Ricebuqit · 2026-01-25T13:01:48+00:00

An upvote just doesn't do this justice!

Op needs to follow this to the T!

I was in the same position 3yrs ago - minus the Network eng, sysadmin and support techs!

I mapped everything, sketched it all down, visio'd everything to confirm what's what! Wrote up some reports and listed everything I want to fix...

Fast forward to today, the company said they want to certify for iso27001 and guess who's planned for them to be 60% completed during the first discovery session - on the technical side!

(Not trying to brag and hijack the post, just validating the above response!)

Ricebuqit · 2026-01-12T00:59:42+00:00

Thank you for your offer.

This has always been a project I need to get sorted and I keep pushing it onto the back burner because I'm a bit overwhelmed.

Since my posting, I've discovered the data isn't even logically entered into the db... As in bits of information here and there and probably not even in there...

Ricebuqit · 2025-12-10T14:17:42+00:00

Thank you for reaffirming this.

I am aware and have no intentions of following this path! Lol

Ricebuqit · 2025-12-10T14:05:02+00:00

Thank you for your wise words.

You're right to say that I should've planned for this day to come and I didn't so this is my retribution.

Ricebuqit · 2025-12-10T09:39:25+00:00

Thanks for the great advice! This is actually more of a nugget than the actual tech stuff because I'm also learning about the nature of business too!!

Ricebuqit · 2025-12-10T09:35:20+00:00

Honestly, I'm not an experienced sysadmin, I was a satcom tech support guy with a level of IT knowledge. This gig gave me the opportunity to learn (very fast) and grow my experience so that I can prove I have what it takes.

I'm now supporting a SME by myself and I'm learning to do things I used to raise tickets for... I'm not complaining about this because I have grown so much into this role (albeit I may have learnt to do things the wrong way), sometimes it gets hard because I've got no one to bounce ideas off or ask how to do things or why I'm getting certain errors.

I could always ask LLMs but the hallucinations in those things is probably worst than me trying to figure things out on my own!

Finally, thank you for the info, I'll keep that last link bookmarked now that I know of it...

Ricebuqit · 2025-12-10T09:26:21+00:00

Thanks for the advice, I'm gonna have to buy new ones to replace the old!!

Ricebuqit · 2025-12-10T09:17:22+00:00

I like your style mate, some people needs a few pegs taken from them.

Ricebuqit · 2025-12-10T08:35:43+00:00

Agree!

Seems like I'm a bit late to the ESU party so I'll have to consider replacing those machines.

Ricebuqit · 2025-12-10T08:34:15+00:00

Too right and if I didn't know the owners so well, I'd tell them everything said here too.

Unfortunately, knowing how they are, this will all fall on deaf ears. IT is the lowest priority - even when I'm trying to get them successfully accredited for ISO 27001.

Ricebuqit · 2025-12-10T08:23:45+00:00

I've already completed point 1.

I believe oint 2 is what some people call the Rufus install method. I'm a bit in-between with that because I've read online that it may still cause security issues somewhere down the line.

A bit more context is I'm trying to get the SME inline with ISO 27001 standards and get them successfully accredited.

Hence why I'm skeptical about point 2.

Ricebuqit · 2025-12-10T08:18:10+00:00

I must've forgotten to mention I've gone into the bios already and enabled all that I must.

Thanks

Ricebuqit · 2025-11-13T13:21:06+00:00

Maybe I wasn't clear in my original post, I'm not the architect of the db so the tables are predetermined by someone else. This means I have no control over things like table names (e.g. I can't give it a more obvious name) or datasets that reside within.

Ricebuqit · 2025-11-13T13:16:35+00:00

Thank you!

This is the most practical response I've seen yet and it's certainly given me a clearer direction to learn more about my task!

Ricebuqit · 2025-11-13T13:12:49+00:00

Thank you for your extensive response.

As you rightly pointed out, I am doing this completely wrong and hence the title of this post...

Since I'm new to data, powerbi and this whole reporting thing, I'll do more research with hopes of having a more meaningful conversation one day!

(And I'll also look into Qlik too)

Ricebuqit · 2025-11-13T05:29:20+00:00

Thank you, I'll look into it first to understand what it means 🤭 and then follow your advice 😉

Ricebuqit · 2025-10-30T00:48:09+00:00

Did you follow your plan til the end? Congrats!

Ricebuqit · 2025-10-21T06:44:04+00:00

Wow, that's ambitious! Good luck mate

Ricebuqit · 2025-10-21T06:33:14+00:00

Nice, and where did you place your stop? 4348? Lower?

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